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Friday, September 25 2020


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The government is saying the new laws will give us freedom to sell anywhere. I am not clear as to what I can do with this freedom. If the mandi system collapses, where will we sell our crops? I am unable to understand why huge private companies will pay us more than what we are getting now.

That’s Durjan Singh Patel, a small farmer in Madhya Pradesh, expressing his puzzled anguish at the new Farm laws—which will allow farmers to sell directly to big private companies anywhere in the country. The worry: private operators will undermine the current government mandi system which oversees all produce transactions, and leave the individual farmer at the mercy of large corporations. Illustration: Parth Savla
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